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Ijeoma Oluo

This person is the writer of the book entitled So You Want to Talk About Race. She was 36 years old when the book was first published and she had one young son at the time. This person grew up in a suburb of Seattle, an area she says is still not particularly inclusive of non-white identities. This person had a very specific and intentional goal when it came to writing her book. Above all, she wanted the book to be useful to people in their everyday lives.

Oluo's Mother

This person is the writer's white parent. This person is depicted as always having good intentions, but she is also shown to have quite a bit of unacknowledged privilege in her background, just like most white people living in the United States. But the writer describes times when this person had urged her to embrace her natural appearance...

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